Eucalyptus camaldulensis. Image Credit: Par Margaret Donald/Wikipedia A stand of eucalyptus trees planted in Argentina’s vast ‘Pampas grasslands’ was found to be reshaping the water beneath its roots. A study titled ‘Hydrological consequences of Eucalyptus afforestation in the Argentine Pampas’ examined how a 40-hectare plantation of ‘Eucalyptus camaldulensis’ affected local groundwater compared with the surrounding…

Nature recovery at Broughton Sanctuary Four years after moving 2,500 acres of North Yorkshire farmland away from intensive farming, conservation teams at Broughton Sanctuary have recorded more than 1,700 species and planted 330,000 trees across the estate. According to the Broughton Sanctuary State of Nature Recovery Report, published in December 2025, 80 per cent of…

Pic courtesy: X/NFL Flag San Diego Girls in San Antonio are proving that football isn’t just for boys. Flag football is giving them an opportunity to play, compete, earn scholarships, and possibly build a future in the sport! When the Alamo City Lady Roadrunners flag football organisation started last year, there were only five girls…

Neil Young in concert November 9, 1976, in Austin, Texas. Image Credit: Mark Estabrook/Wikipedia In 1970, Neil Young made a life-changing purchase that would soon become part of rock music history. At a time when his career was gathering momentum the Canadian singer-songwriter spent $350,000 on a sprawling ranch in Northern California. The property, later…

The unruly passenger who was duct-taped to his seat on an American Airlines flight was fired from the company he was working with as the VP. 67-year-old Arthur Lundeen, the man who was duct-taped to his seat on an American Airlines flight after he created a nuisance, has been fired from the real estate company…

An Indiana tyre and bicycle business started by three brothers in 1918 is still operating under the same family ownership 108 years later. The business has also built an unusually loyal workforce, with several employees staying for more than four decades. A report published by local news outlet The Addison Times highlights the business’s long…

UK Anti-migrant protest: cops injured and several vehicle damaged/Image: AP Several police officers were injured and vehicles belonging to police, Coastguard and Border Force were damaged after an anti-migrant protest in Portsmouth turned violent following the arrival of about 140 migrants by boat.Hundreds of people gathered in the English coastal city on Sunday after two…

Greta Ramirez-Guerrero was studying fragments of ancient life that had survived in Quebec rock for roughly 450 million years when she encountered an unusual problem: the animal she was examining had almost nothing that should have fossilised well. Paleocanna tentaculum was a soft-bodied relative of modern jellyfish, shaped more like a narrow tube than the…